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Publisher
Zondervan Reflective
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Person of Interest, cold-case homicide detective, former atheist, and bestselling author J. Warner Wallace employs a unique 'no-body, missing person' detective strategy to investigate Jesus and demonstrate why He still matters today, even in a world that is skeptical of the Bible.
Author
Series
Dare Valley volume 1
Language
English
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Journalist Meredith Hale's ex-husband claimed her Nora Roberts addiction gave her unrealistic expectations about marriage and she believed him. All dreams of Nora Roberts Land (as her mother called it) went up in smoke. But when her family asks her to temporarily help their Dare Valley, Colorado, newspaper, she decides it's time to change her life and prove her ex wrong. She's determined to find her own small-town Nora Roberts hero, prove that true...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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“Three Steps to Yes shows you how to sell your ideas or yourself . . . a clear guide for instilling trust and respect.” —BookPage
Everybody has to sell something sometimes. Whether you’re a manager or an employee, getting your message across requires selling yourself and your ideas in a way that guarantees a positive response, even from the most stubborn listener. Three Steps to Yes teaches you how to get...
Everybody has to sell something sometimes. Whether you’re a manager or an employee, getting your message across requires selling yourself and your ideas in a way that guarantees a positive response, even from the most stubborn listener. Three Steps to Yes teaches you how to get...
Author
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, the writers--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and discover. The result is a collection of deeply personal...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in todays debates on religion, morality, politics, and science. At the origin of Western philosophy stands Plato, who got about as much wrong...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the other way around? In this groundbreaking work, an evolutionary biologist dismantles racially-based theories and reveals the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. A whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire population. Here is a...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Explores how a church once known as a force for social justice became known for a few key wedge issues, then looks at the opportunities for change in the "age of Francis." The first non-European pope in more than a millennium, Pope Francis is shaking up a church that has been mired in scandal and demoralized by devastating headlines.--Publisher's description.
The author, a Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, an advocacy group, analyzes...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers and energy industry executives from around the world, Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to national prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of climate change, writing what has been acclaimed by reviewers everywhere...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
World-renowned behavioral scientists Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff have set forth ten trusts that we must honor as custodians of the planet. They argue passionately and persuasively that if we put these trusts to work in our lives, the earth and all its inhabitants will be able to live together harmoniously. The Ten Trusts expands the concept of our obligation to live in close relationship with animals -- for, of course, we humans are part of the animal...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What paths did true believers take to Nazism? Why did they join what was initially a small, extremist, and often violent movement on the fringes of German politics? When the party began its election campaigning after 1925, why did people vote for it only grudgingly, though in the Great Depression years, make it the largest in the country? Even then, many millions withheld their support, as they would, if covertly, in the Third Reich. Were the recruits...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"There is a ship, a navy ship. It is called the USS New York. It is big like other navy ships, and it sails like other navy ships, but there is something special about the USS New York. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once inside one of the World Trade Towers. The beam was driven from New York to a foundry in Louisiana. Metal workers heated the beam to a high, high temperature....
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Preamble: On starting from where we are -- Can religion be defined? -- How Christian Europe learned to compare religions -- Broadening the foundation, raising the roof: 1737-1893.
"A short, provocative book on religion from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. In his new book, acclaimed scholar Jack Miles poses a question: How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable...
Author
Publisher
Service Press
Pub. Date
2001, 2002
Language
English
Description
Benny Hochman was 21 when he was liberated by American troops from Hitler's hellish concentration camps. Only flesh and bones at 78 pounds on his six-foot frame after five years of imprisonment, his indomitable fighting spirit survived the horrors that saw millions of his fellow Polish countrymen perish, including all family members.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A nuanced and deeply-reported account of the collapse of Venezuela, and what it could mean for the rest of the world. Today, Venezuela is a country of perpetual crisis-a country of rolling blackouts, nearly worthless currency, uncertain supply of water and food, and extreme poverty. In the same land where oil-the largest reserve in the world-sits so close to the surface that it bubbles from the ground, where gold and other mineral resources are abundant,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles the events of 1944 to reveal how nearly the Allies lost World War II, citing the pivotal contributions of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin,"--Novelist.
It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that it would even end well. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler's waning power. Instead, it saved those democracies--but with a fateful cost. 1944 witnessed a series of titanic events: FDR at...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the lives and attitudes of young people who even as children could...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their ineradicable legacy for America. In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great Awakening surged through America, political questions became...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated for civil rights, education, justice, and peace; his message transcended race, class, and creed, resonating deeply within and across America. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and was expected to run against Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, following in the footsteps of his late brother John. After winning the California presidential primary...
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